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During COVID, something became impossible to ignore. Every month, my mood would shift. Not randomly. Not unpredictably. Not for weeks at a time. It happened around my cycle. I experienced: Intense emotional reactivity Brain fog that felt neurological Deep fatigue Irritability that did not feel like “me” And then — when my period arrived — it would lift. I functioned well outside of that window. I worked. I achieved. I built. I planned. Inside that window, my nervous system fe

If you had asked me years ago whether I believed in ADHD, I might have hesitated. Not because I did not believe in struggle. Not because I did not see suffering. But because I was raised in systems cultural, medical, academic where ADHD was framed as overdiagnosis, laziness, or simply needing more discipline. I grew up in a BIPOC community shaped by resilience, survival, migration, and high expectations. We did not talk about neurodivergence. We talked about achievement. We t

Therapy sounds simple on paper. You sit down. You talk about feelings. You learn coping tools. You heal. But when you are first gen, culturally different, and raised by parents who do not speak English, therapy can feel like learning a whole new language while also translating your entire life. Sometimes you show up wanting to talk about anxiety, and you realize you are carrying something bigger. You are carrying the interpreter role you never applied for. You are carrying th